[REVISIT CLASSIC GAMES] WORD RESCUE : An Education Game for Young Children.
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WORD RESCUE : An Education Game for MS-DOS platform
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Welcome back to my blog, with me @zulman, you are going to find a review about old classic video games here. Here in my blog, I will be reviewing classic game that was release before the year of 2000. Here, by revisiting classic game, I want to share with you about some of those game that we probably never played when we were kids. I want to experience the game now and gain more knowledge about the video game history.
In this blog, you will also find the information on how to play the game I am reviewing. Also, i will tell you how to install the game on your current PC or Mac or if you do not wish the difficulties of installing the game, I will also give you information where you can play the game online without installing it on your computer.
Review Notice
Alright, let's begin the review of the game.
Word Rescue is a video game that can help kids learn about words. This video game is an educational platform video games that was created for MS-DOS. The game itself was written by a programmer named Karen Crowther from Redwood Games. The game was developed by Redwood Games, but published by a well known company, it is Apogee Software who published the game on March, 1992. For another platform, the game has also release the version for Windows and Mac OS on Steam platform in 2015.
In Word Rescue, there are three episodes available to play, just like another games that was released by Apogee Software. However, this game come with a shareware version where in this version, it is only the first episode that playable. This game also spawn a sequel named Word Rescue Plus. However, this version was not developed by the same company. Sometime, this version was not considered the original version of Word Rescue. For the list of episodes that available in the game, check out the table below. The video game was described by "Computer Gaming World" as the game that was excellent choice for young children. Here is what they wrote.
Excellent choices for younger children ... though us older 'kids' will still find them entertaining. They are difficult to keep playing"
| Episode | Title |
|---|---|
| Episode 1 | Visit Gruzzleville and the Castle |
| Episode 2 | Explore GruzzleBad Caverns |
| Episode 3 | See the spooky Haunted House |
Note: This video game until now still sold as a registered version by Apogee Software.
Check out this link to see the game on Steam Click Here
The summary of the game development.
- Developers : Redwood Games
- Publisher : Apogee Software
- Programmer : Genus Microprogramming
- Composer : Voyetra Technologies
- Platform : MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OS
- Released : March 18, 1992
- Genre : Platform Game, Educational
- Game Mode : Single Player
Word Rescue Plot and Gameplay Overview.
The story of Word Rescue video game was centered around creatures called "The Gruzzles". Due to the fact that these creatures cannot read, they steal words from books. The reason is that they want another cannot be able to read the book as well. The player will take role as a young boy or girl and help a person named Benny Bookworm to take back all the words that has been stolen. After the words has been taken back, the player need to match the word with their respective meanings so that Mr. Bookworm can put back the word in the book.
In the gameplay, the player need to moves around the screen in platform environment such as in a platform shooter video games. The player need to try to match the word with their corresponding pictures. These pictures are located randomly in the level. Moreover, the player also need to avoid the Gruzzles and dangers. If the player touch them, it will result in having to start the level over. There are 7 words in total from each level. After all the 7 words are matched, Mr. Bookworm will turns all collected words by the player into a key. This key is needed in order to open the door that will take the player to the next level.
Word Rescue is designed in order the game to be playable by a range of ages, there are three level of the game corresponding to the age of the player. See the summary below.
- [Easy level] Can be played by ages 4 - 7
- [Medium level] Can be played by ages 7 - 10
- [Hard level] Can be played by ages 10 and up. It can be a challenge for adults, too!
In the game, if the player match the word with wrong picture, the creatures of Gruzzles will appear and bring dangers to the player. In order to deal with the Gruzzle, the player need to press space bar to ask Mr. Bookworm to pour slime on it. The supply on lime is also limited. However, it can replenished by collecting slime bucket or completing the mystery words.
The amount Gruzzles that will appear will be depending of the difficulty level of the game. The easy level is easy for young players, as there is only one predetermined Gruzzle in the level. The harder the difficulty level, the more Gruzzles will appear in the game. In the game, to reveal the mistery road, often has as many or more Gruzzles as there are words to find and 20 books must be collected. This will makes the game also challenging even for adults.
Check this picture below to see how the game look like.
These screenshots is taken from online
What I think about Word Rescue video games.
This video game is a very good game for young children to teach them words. The gameplay is also fun to play, even for adult the game is also challenging to play. For me personally, as a non English speaker, even the medium level of the game I find quite challenging.
Alright, before we end the review, Let's see how you can play this video game
>> Install the game on your computer with DOSBox
Go to this website by clicking this link to download the game. Then:
1. open DOSBox (Check out the video below to see how to install DOSBox)
2. Extract the downloaded file and navigate to the game folder with DOSBox
3. Execute install.exe to install and play the game.
>> You also can play the game Online
For those of you who does not want to make life harder, we have a good news, this game is also available online. There are a lot of website that provide this video game online. There is no need to download or install anything. Just click the link and you are ready to play. Check the link below.
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Notice
The game that available for download and online play is a demo version, if you want to purchase a full version of the game, you can check it out at gog.com
How to install DOSBox
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